An Italian jet shot down a drone that entered Lithuania from Belarus on September 15, the first such interception in Lithuanian airspace, as a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish helicopter the day before.
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Russian Drone Narrowly Misses Diplomatic Train at Ukraine-Poland Border
A drone struck Yahodyn station hours after Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt passed through, as a second train carrying former CIA Director David Petraeus remained at the platform.
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Putin Brands Zelenskyy a Terrorist as Russia Fires 174 Drones at Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro
Russia launched its largest overnight drone barrage in weeks on September 2, killing one and wounding more than a dozen across three Ukrainian cities, as Putin refused to rule out striking British military facilities.
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Ukraine Drones Strike Ozon Warehouse in Russia for the First Time
Ukrainian FPV drones set fire to an Ozon logistics hub in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast on August 22, forcing over 500 workers to evacuate in the first confirmed attack on Russia’s second-largest e-retailer.
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Ukraine Fires Over 400 Drones at Moscow in the War’s Largest Single Blitz
Ukraine launched more than 400 drones toward Moscow in an overnight strike in early August, the largest single drone blitz of the war, injuring ten people and igniting a fire at a major logistics hub south of the capital.
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Sudan Army Strikes Darfur Tribal Court, Killing at Least 35
A Sudan army drone struck a North Darfur customary court on August 2, killing at least 35 people, rights monitors said, in a war with no end in sight.
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Ukraine Hits Engels Bomber Base and Saratov Refinery in Deepest Overnight Raids
Ukrainian drones set fires at Russia’s Engels airbase and Saratov refinery overnight August 2, striking key military and energy infrastructure roughly 600 kilometres inside Russian territory.
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Ukraine Strikes 176 Shadow Fleet Vessels in July Drone Blitz
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed 11 more shadow fleet vessels and hit 20 Crimean energy facilities across two nights, pushing the July campaign total to 176 ships struck.
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Zelensky Fires Ukraine’s Drone-War Architect, Protests Erupt
Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister after just six months, triggering street protests in Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv over the removal of Ukraine’s drone-warfare architect.
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Ukraine Drones Knock Out Russia’s Last Untouched Refinery in Bashkortostan
Ukrainian drones flew 1,500 km into Russia overnight to disable both primary distillation units at Gazprom’s Salavat petrochemical complex, which processes 2.7% of Russia’s total oil refining capacity.